Take 2 of these and call me in the morning

Checking into the ICU
This week we checked our project, DueDates, into the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). This ICU is similar to what a hospital’s ICU is just like, just with no beeping sounds all over the room. It checks the vitals signs, but instead of heart rate or blood pressure, it checks on complexity, coverage testing, coupling, churn, code issues, size, development time, commits, builds, and test. The ICU for program projects checks the trends on those vital signs and displays it on a graph, showing if there is an increase or decrease in vitals.

To have the ICU project monitor you’ll have to install it into your own computer and also become a member of the online monitor. The actual monitor on both your own computer and the online monitor are called HackyStat. The installation on your computer, is a plug-in for the Eclipse IDE.

Dilemmas checking in
When I installed the monitor onto my own computer, the installation went smoothly. The main problem I had was altering a system environment variable, which is needed to connect your local computer to the online monitor. After an aggravating night of trying to fix what was wrong with setting the environment variable, I sought the help of my professor on the next day. After just a simple glimpse of my environment setup, he spotted the problem. The problem was just a simple misspelling, instead of spelling it as “ARGS” I spelt it as “AGRS”; big difference right? Getting past that small dilemma, I was able to complete the whole installation. Then i was able to see the vitals of the patient.


Current Patient Vitals

The Diagnoses
This program vital monitor, HackyStat, is really awesome, makes me feel like a doctor. Well not just like any doctor, more like Frankenstein; mostly because we actually created the patient, the program. Following the HackyStat installation, I see that the patient’s vitals are stable but cane be improved. To improve the stats we need to give further testing, instead of lots of exercise and a balanced diet for a regular human. Before we do the testing though, team-silver has to take the patient to the operating room.